/r/WritingPrompts
[WP] At a young age you made a deal with a fey in which you promised them your firstborn. Now you’re a 35 year old virgin, and the fey, sick of waiting, comes to help you around the dating scene.
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[WP] "Sure, it'll only cost you your soul" you used to jokingly say whenever you did something for free. everyone always got a laugh out of it, and so did you! until the first soul showed up in your living room with a very, very tired looking reaper.
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[WP] You are a unimportant background character just trying to survive whatever nonsense the main characters are up to. However you keep finding yourself being drawn into dangerous stituations, and to your horror you realise that you're a fan favorite character the show is giving more "screen time".
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[WP] Humanity is visited by a cosmic horror the likes of which has only been seen in Lovecraftian horror. In desperation, Earth throws everything we have at it, and, miraculously, the human race has killed a God. Somewhere in a realm beyond our understanding, the other gods speak of the event.
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[WP] The hero defeated the dragon sorceress, rescued the princess, and saved the kingdom. Instead of ascending to the throne, he decided to introduce democracy and give power to the people...who then promptly elected the dragon sorceress.
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[WP] My wife told me there was someone at the door. I asked if it was a penguin, and she was confused. I asked again, banging the table, if it was a penguin. She looked outside the window, and to her surprise, it was. I cocked my shotgun. So it begins.
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[WP] The house you just rented is beyond compensation - staircases and extra floors coming and going, rooms rotating and changing places. You just ignore it. On the fourth day, the eldritch horror informs you that you are the first to stay inside it for more than 72 hours without going insane.
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[WP]After watching too much anime, you've been training for the day you're summoned to a medieval fantasy world. Instead you're summoned to a sci-fi/horror FPS world where an AI instructs you to exterminate the alien horde who wiped out humanity. It gives you a 9mm with two clips & wishes you luck.
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[WP] You are the weakest swordsman at the academy. One day your instructor pulls you aside and brings you an object wrapped in cloth. Inside is a small twig. "Some people were never meant to wield a sword. Centuries ago, these 'wands' held great power. Maybe you can make this one work."
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[WP] Your terraforming company cracks a planet too deep and it splits open, revealing a creature slumbering inside. As it awakens, it lets out a deafening cry that somehow travels the void of space. Reports of terraformed planets opening up and being split open begin to fill your ship's monitor.
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